1947-03-05 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN
SPIRIT VUOH WILL NEVER
DIE
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOL. LXXII WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number 8
STATE CAPITOL
Group Backs
Selection Of
Governor's
Trustees
Auburn students, in sympathy with the policy of Gov­ernor
James E. Fols.om in regard to the appointment of
six new members to the Auburn Board of Trustees, mo­tored
to Montgomery yesterday afternoon in an effort to
persuade the senate to confirm
his appointees.
A delegation of 15 students
led by Student Body President
Frank Keown arrived at the
capital at 11 a.m. yesterday and
presented a student - worded
resolution to Senator A. L. Pat­terson
who introduced it to
the senate immediately.
The resolution, which had
been signed by 1,700 students
yesterday morning, read:
"As members of the student
body of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, we feel that we:
above all people, have the right
to state our position in the
present crisis involving the Au­burn
Board of Trustees."
"We highly resent the inter­ference
of any political faction
in the internal affairs of our
educational institution."
"We heartily approve, Gov­ernor
Folsom's plans for mak­ing
the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute one of the most out­standing
land grant colleges m
the nation."
"We urge you to confirm the
Governor's appointments to
the Auburn Board of Trustees."
At the conclusion of the read
ing, Sen. Gulledge sprang to
his feet and said, "I don't con­sider
the petition worth the pa­per
it is written on." When
students back in Auburn heard
this news, a campaign went un­derway
immediately to form a
mass meeting. The news was
spread and all estimated crowd
of 4,000 gathered in the stadium.
After the meeting students
formed a motorcade of approxi­mately
200 cars, and led by the
State Highway Patrol, arrived
in the State Capital 900 strong.
Photographers from newspapers
all over the state snapped pic­tures
of the students as they
marched across the Capitol
lawn bearing placards reading,
"Back Big Jim," "Auburn Stu­dents
Want a Fair Deal." The
students entered the building in
an orderly fashion and were
admitted to the galleries until
they were filled. The remainder
lingered in the halls or went
into the House Chamber.
Evidently annoyed, the pre­siding
officer of the Senate, Lt.
Gov. Clarence Inzer of Gads-ien,
threatened to have the
doorkeepers clear Auburn stu­dents
from the galleries and the
Senate floor.
Senator Fite, able young
senator from Marion County,
stepped forward and asked the
privileges of the floor for all
the Auburn students who could
get in the Senate chamber.
Senator Clayton of Barbour
County, who with Senator
Bruce Henderson of Wilcox led
the fight for the Farm Bureau
and Extension Service against
Gov. Folsom's appointees, ob­jected.
(When one senator ob­jects
to such a motion it fails).
Hardly had he taken several
steps away from the microphone
on the senate floor, however,
did Senator Clayton withdraw
his objection.
Senator Fife's request that
the students be allowed to re­main
in the galleries and on the
senate floor brought prolonged
applause from the sutdents.
The Senate confirmed trus­tee
nominations of Senator
Summerlin, Luverne; R e d us
Collier, Decatur; and Judge
Parrish, Clanton. Gould Beech,
who resigned, was congratu­lated
on his stand by spectators
when he released his statement
to the press.
The Senate adjourned until
May.
Research Professor
Attends Conference
Dr. David Mullins, API Re­search
Professor in Education is
attending the American Associ­ation
*of School Administrators
Conference in Atlantic City,
Government Group
Sponsoring Dance
To Be Held Weekly
If Successful
The Student Social Life com­mittee
of API has announced
that there will be an informal
dance in Student Center Thurs­day
night from 7 until 9 with
no script. A five piece orches­tra
composed of members of the
Plainsmen will furnish music
for the occasion. The Social
Life Committee is sponsoring
the function in an effort to
provide more recreational ac­tivities
for more students.
The Committee plans to pre­sent
two of these dances before
the spring holidays with the
music being furnished at the
next dance by an ensemble
from the Auburn Knights.
Dean Katharine Cater, chair­man
of the group, has disclosed
that if the venture is success­ful,
these dances will be held
weekly after the holidays. The
date of the next presentation
will be announced at the first
dance.
AN EDITORIAL
Auburn has been shamed.
It was hardly a month ago that this paper boasted
editorially that Alabama, unblemished by raving dema­gogues
and tangled constitutions, was considered the
"bright spot of Southern politics."
And now—not only has Auburn been disgraced—
but Alabama as well.
Leaders of the Farm Bureau Federation, greedy for
political power, financial security, and in an attempt to
maintain personal prestige after being denounced by
Governor' Folsom, have catapaulted Auburn into the
nastiest, bitterest, partisan political battle ever fought
in connection with an Alabama educational institution.
These so-called leaders have forgotten that there are
greater things that lie in the balance than a victory for
either Governor Folsom or the Farm Bureau. Before the
fight began, they failed to remember that Auburn, any­time—
past, present, future—and especially FUTURE,
is more important than a gross of governors and a
thousand Farm Bureau Federations.
Now is the time for the state government to realize
that the selfish interests of a few must go—forever!
Air Reserve Group
Will Hold Closed
Meeting Monday
The Auburn chapter of the Air
Reserve Association will hold a.
closed meeting Monday night at
7 in Broun Auditorium. Two
training films, "Ground Control
Approach", a n d "Emergency
Equipment", will be shown as
an accredited part of ground
school which is ordinarily held
at Gunter Field, Montgomery.
A lecture will be given on navi­gation.
All regular members are
urged to attend. Those who an­ticipate
becoming members of
ARA are invited.
API Symphony Orchestra Presents
Inaugural Concert Here March I I
'Ceremonial March'
To Be Premeired
Glomerata Election Monday
Auburn students will go to the polls Monday to elect anizations and publications. 1
only were allowed to elect the
Glomerata editor.
F. M. Fuller, Chairman of
the Elections Committee, an­nounced
that the polls will be
open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. at Ag Hill and the Main
Gate.
Candidates and their aids are
warned of the rules and penal-tips
for violations. They - must
not come within 50 feet of the
polls for any purpose other than
voting. Violations of the rules
will cause disqualification of
the candidate and removal of
voting privileges when report­ed
to the Executive Cabinet by
the Chairman of the Election:-.
Committee.
Candidates listed in alpha­betical
order, and their experi­ence
are:
Frank Benning: Plainsman
staff member, 1944; Glomerata
photographer, 1944; associate
editor, Glomerata, '44; staff
member, Glomerata, '46; asso­ciate
editor, Glomerata, '47.
J. T. Boyeli: In charge, fra­ternity
and organizations sec­tions,
Glomerata, '44; s t a ff
member, Glomerata, '47; report­er,
high school paper.
Lenny Payne: Editor, high
the 1948 Glomerata editor from a list of five candidates.
Under a recent ruling of the Executive Cabinet, voting
is open to the upper three'classes—sophomores, juniors,
and seniors. Formerly seniors ,
school annual; staff member,
William & Mary annual, 1 year;
assistant editor W&M college
paper; three years experience
on college papers; temporary
editor, Tiger Rag; Glomerata
staff member two years, and
associate editor, '47 Glomerata.
John Shaffer: Associate edi­tor
'47 Glomerata; editor for
beauty and personality sections,
'47 Glomerata.
Harry Shields: Art staff, high
school annual; staff member,
high school literary magazine;
associate editor, '47 Glomerata.
plan to emphasize the scholastic
activities on the campus, be­cause
the Glomerata is primari­ly
an academic publication.
LENNY PAYNE
I desire to edit the Glomerata,
feeling that I have had suffi­cient
experience to prepare a
yearbook giving an accurate
portrayal of Auburn life. If
elected, I will strive to achieve
this. However, I urge every
eligible voter to select the
candidate whom he conscienti­ously
believes best qualified.
The API Symphony Orches­tra,
under the direction of Pro­fessor
Edgar C. Glyde, will pre­sent
its inaugural concert in
Langdon Hall at 8 p.m., Tues­day,
March 11. No admission
will be charged.
The API Ceremonial March
by Edgar Glyde will have its
premier at this time. Professor
Glyde has written the march
especially for use at Auburn
graduations.
The audience will be wel­comed
during,the intermission
by President Luther N. Duncan.
The program for the concert
has been announced as follows:
Prelude and Fugue number—
XXII _____ -_- J. S. Bach
Orchestrated by Edgar Glyde
Symphony in D Major 31—
W. A. Mozart
Concerto in D Major (First
Movement) _ W. A. Mozart
Thomas Floyd, Pianist
Intermission.
Welcome by President L. N.
Duncan.
API Ceremonial March—
Edgar Glyde
(Dedicated to President Luth­er
Duncan).
"Andantino" for Strings—
1 J. S. Bach
Orchestrated by Hubert Liv-erman.
Hyde Park Suite
(1) Sunday Morning
(2) Rotten Row
(3) On The Serpentine
(4) Around the Bandstand
Overture Orpheus in the Un­derworld
—- J. Offenbach
A-Day Gala Event
To Be April 12
Reid Trapani, A-Club publici­ty
manager, announced yester­day
that the A-Club has al­ready
begun plans for the an­nual
A-Day Celebration which
has officially been set for April
12.
The day's program will in­clude
a baseball game begin­ning
at 10 a.m.; track meet,
1:15 p. m.; football game, 3
p.m.; and a dance, 9 p.m.
During the halftime period
of the football game, the A-Day
queen will be presented with a
loving cup, and another cup
will be awarded to the out­standing
senior girl PE major.
The head of the PE department
and staff of the Girls' PE de­partment
will select the win­ner.
Tickets for A-Day will go on
sale the latter part of March,
and can be secured from any
member of the A-Club.
RED CROSS DRIVE
BEGINS TODAY
Sponsored By Owls;
Continues Tomorrow
The API Branch of the Lee
County Chapter of the Amer­ican
Red Cross is holding its
membership-fund drive today
and tomorrow. Patty Northing-ton,
chairman of the API
branch, has stated that the
chapter on the Auburn campus
is the largest college chapter
in the Southeast.
"The goal of this drive," she
says, "is to keep Auburn at the
top and to increase membership
even more." Ollie Williamson,
Chairman of the Fund Drive
Committee, will have represen­tatives
in the classroom build­ings
and at Main Gate all day.
There will also be representa­tives
sent to the mens' and
womens' dorms and to the fra­ternity
houses.
This drive for the Red Cross
is being sponsored, by Owls,
Women's Sophomore H o n or
Society. Members will help in
the soliciting of contributions
along with the members of
other campus organizations.
Any organization, such as a
fraternity or sorority, having
one-hundred percent member­ship
in the Red Cross will be
awarded an official certificate
of membership.
Beech Withdraws
Name As Trustee
The following telegram from Gould Beech, recent ap­pointee
to the Auburn Board of Trustees, was received
by the Lee County Bulletin here yesterday:
"My interest in Auburn was never a-personal one. Dur­ing
the years since I was an employee of the Extension
Service and a member of the
Auburn Baby Clinic
Lee County Health Depart­ment
is planning a Well Baby
Clinic to be held twice monthly
in Auburn at the Infirmary.
FRANK BENNING
College yearbook experience
behind an editor certainly af­fects
the quality of a book. My
qualifications srjow that I have
a definite edge on the other
candidates. I worked hard with
the Glomerata these past yeavs
to prepare myself. If you so
desire, I will give you a good
'48 Glomerata.
J. T. BOYETT
If elected editor of the 1948
Glomerata, I will give the best
of my ability to see that there
will be equal representation
and cooperation among inde­pendent
students, campus org-
JOHN SHAFFER
Regardless of your candidate,
be sure to vote Monday. The
outcome is important to you,
for this is to be your perma­nent
record of college. I want
to give you a year book that is
a complete and authentic re­flection
of Auburn in fact and
spirit—a Glomerata to be re­membered.
Tau Beta Pi Taps l7
Men For Scholarship
Sphinx Set April Fourth
Deadline For Entering
Campus Sing Contest
Sphinx, senior women's hon­orary
society, has set April- 4
as the deadline for organiza­tions
to sign for participation
in the Campus Sing to be held
the third week in April.
Any group on the campus
with membership more than 10
is invited to enter the contest.
Organizations with membership
more than 35 should enter at
least 35 singers.
Two songs are to be selected
by each competing organization.
They will be judged on har­mony,
unity, general effort,
originality or presentation and
interpretation.
Coed and male groups will be
faculty and since that time my
interest has been to help in
whatever way I could to build
Auburn for greater service. Be­cause
of this interest, there has
been an organized, systematic
campaign throughout Alabama
to destroy me. I am happy to
have been the victim of such
an attack from the forces who
have conducted the campaign.
I do not believe- that any man
or woman in Alabama who
knows the truth has been in­fluenced
by the slander and
malicious lies. However the
personal attack against me has
over-shadowed the fundamental
issue at Auburn. That issue JS
whether an educational func­tion
shall be corrupted and
prostituted for the petty, politi­cal
ambitions of a few men."
"The fact that the faculty of
Auburn should have voted 174
to 1 denouncing the kind of ac­tivity
that has been taking
place is final proof that some­thing
is wrong at that institu­tion.
Today Auburn lies help­less
and bleeding. The morale
of its faculty and students is
at the lowest ebb in history.
Today the farm services which
are supposed to improve the
welfare of all farm people are
shot through with feuds and
power-made political activity.
"I did not create this Auburn
problem.
"My only desire has been to
help it. The income of Alabama
farmers has failed to advance
in line with that of other
southern states. Eventually all
Alabama may have an oppor­tunity
to know the tragic cost
of this political activity to the
farmers of this state as well
as the cost to the people as a
whole.
"If there were any need for
additional proof that the Ex­tension
Service is the center of
an organized political ring, that
proof was shown on Monday of
judged separately and a cup t h i s w e e k T h e c a p i t a l s w a r m c d
HARRY SHIELDS
It is my belief that the 1948
Glomerata should be designed
to give an accurate and impar­tial
picture of campus life
showing the friendliness and
informality which create that
"Auburn Spirit." I sincerely
wish to edit such a Glomerata
and make it an outstanding
publication of its type . . .
Alabama Alpha chapter of
Tau Beta Pi, highest engineer­ing
honorary society at Auburn,
held. a special tapping recently,
and considered for membership
only seniors who will graduate
in March or June.
Men tapped for membership
in recognition of their scholar­ship,
character, and promise
for success in their chosen pro­fession
are James C. Barneii,
Atlanta, Ga., 4CN, Phi Lambda
Epsilon, ATO; Frank C. Brooks,
Jr.. Huntsville, Ala., 4CE, AIEE,
Eta Kappa Nu, Briarean, Scab­bard
and Blade; Gerald D. Bur­nett,
Goodwater, Ala. 4CE Chi
Epsilon Phi Kappa Phi ASCE,
Briarean; Donald C. Cheatham,
Birmingham, 4AE, Phi Kappa
Phi, IAS; Henry M. Crine. Jr.,
Dothan, 4CE, Eta Kappa Nu,
AIEE; Walter A. Davis, Jr.,
Andalusia, 4CE, Eta Kappa Nu,
field, 4CE, Eta Kappa Nu, AIEE,
Theta Sigma Lambda; George
H. Gould. Tuscaloosa, 4CE, Chi
Epsilon, ASCE; Arnold J. Gal
ly, Preston, Miss., 4CN, Phi
Lambda Epsilon, Briarean
PKT; Ray T. Kitchens, Deca­tur,
4CE, Eta Kappa Nu, AIEE
SPE; Robert Ledyard, Mont­gomery,
4CE, Eta Kappa Nu.
AIEE, Lambda Chi; James T.
Mayes, Birmingham, 4AE, IAS.
Sigma Nu; Morton H. Novick,
Birmingham, 4ME, Pi Tau Sig­ma,
Phi Kappa Phi, ASME
TEP; Samuel L. Patton, Mont
gomery, 4ME, Pi Tau Sigma,
ASME, SAE; William R. Rob­inson,
Nashville, Tenn., 4AE.
Phi Kappa Phi, IAS, Sabers,
AIO; William S. Roden, Falk-ville,
4AE, IAS APO, Delta
Sig; William E. Smith, Ideal,
Ga., 4ME, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi
will be awarded to each group.
In order to help defray ex­penses
for the contest each org­anization
competing will pay
$1 for entry fee.
Organizations desiring to take
part in the singing contest
should mail to Beverly Ann
Burkhardt, 337 Payne Street,
by April 4 the name of the
group entering, the number par­ticipating,
the names of the
songs selected, and the entry
fee.
with employees of the Exten­sion
Service. There were some
farmers—Those who have been
misled by lies and slander and
some who are dependent on
the Extension Service.
"So widespread was this cam­paign
conducted by the Exten­sion
Service that I have be'en
informed by my friends in the
Senate that it would be impos­sible
to get a vote giving me a
Cair hearing.
"My work and devotion for
democracy and for Auburn in
the years ahead will be answer
enough to the slander that has
been systematically spread.
"I have proof that until this
campaign started I was recog­nized
as a loyal friend of Au­burn.
That proof, consists in
part, of a letter written to me
while I was still in the army.
The letter was an invitation for
me to return to Auburn as a
member of the faculty and as
publicity director. It had the
concurrence of the President of
the College, the Dean of the
School of Science and Litera­ture
and the director of Exten­sion.
"During the years ahead I
will hold that letter, and oth­er
information as proof that if
any man says I have not been
interested in Auburn, he lies.
"Meanwhile, I know that be­cause
this issue has been made
a personal one—though I never
wanted it to be—it will be in
the best interest of Auburn for
me to ask the Governor not to
submit my name to the Senate.
I shall continue to do all in my
power for the future greatness
of Auburn, and especially for
those services which were de­signed
to improve the welfare
of Alabama's farm people.
"I believe that by eliminating
this personal matter, the prin­ciples
involved can be seen
more clearly.
"I have taken this action on
my own initiative and not a
single man in Alabama sug­gested,
or urged me to do it."
Gould Beech.
On The Campus, .
AIEE; Clarence T. Esiock. Fair-' Kappa Phi.
Social Event Deadline
Is Saturday Night
Miss Katherine Cater, Dean
of Women, announced that
there will be no social func­tions
the week and week-end
b e f o r e final examinations.
Saturday, March 8 is the last
day scheduled on the sociai
calendar on which functions
may be held.
Current Events Exam
Scheduled Tuesday
Current events exams will be
ield Tuesday, Mar. 11, from 7-8
p.m., according to announce­ment
from the history depart­ment.
Instructors, and l o c a t i on
where exams will be given are
—Bjurberg, NB 116; South, NB
222; Dr. Reynolds, Samford
301; Kendrick, (2-3 section
Tuesday) Samford 302; Ken­drick
(2-3 section Wed.) NB 106.
Student Relations Committee . . .
. . . will meet this afternoon at 5 in Student Center. All stu­dents
are invited to air complaints before this group.
* * *
Forestry Club . . .
. . . meets Monday night in AE-212 at 7:30. Officers for spring
quarter will be elected.
* * *
Executive Cabinet . . .
. . . meets Thursday afternoon at 5 p. m. in Student Center.
All students invited.
* * - *
Alabama Farmer . . .
. . . staff members meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Comer 304.
ASCE . . .
. . . will meet Monday night at 7:30 in Broun Auditorium.
Prof. G. N. Mitcham, an associate with R. L. Kenan, consulting
engineers, will talk on "Stream Pollution."
* * *
All Sociology Majors
. . . are invited to meet at Social Center Thursday at 6:30
with Mrs. Mary Bidder.
* * *
Spiked Shoe .''-..'•
. . . will hold an important meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p. m.
at the Field House. All members are requested to' attend.
* * *
Engineers' Council . . .
. . . meets Wednesday 5 p. m. in Ramsay 305.
Class Ring
. . . orders of '47 and '48 rings will be taken at Main Gate this
afternoon from 1 until 5.
JOIN THE
AY A TODAY THE VETERAN'S JOURNAL WE NEED YOU
YOU NEED US
Voicing The Veterans Views
Veteran Photographer
One Of South's Best
James Established Portrait Studio By
Adding Pigments To Photography
By Bill Ervine
What is photography but
painting with light, and if it
be painting, who should logi­cally
be photographer par ex-cellance
if not an artist who
has elected to supplement his
pigments with film and sensi­tized
paper? So reasoned Al­fred
James, artist and instruc­tor
in the Auburn art depart­ment,
and suiting the action to
the thought the artist opened a
photographic studio. Not being
a man to be satisfied with
enough to get by on, James Has
equipped and decorated one of
the finest portrait studios in
the South, and from it come
pictures of technical excellence
and artistic appeal.
Alfred James has not always
been an artist, nor has he al­ways
lived in Auburn. His home
was o r i g i n a l l y Providence,
Rhode Island, and his early ar­tistic
training was received at
the Rhode Island School of De­sign.
After graduating in 1930,
James studied under Ernest
Thurn and H a n s Hoffman,
world famous artists of the
modern school, and by 1937 had
received such attention that he
was offered a position as in­structor
in art at API. Here he
taught such subjects as clay
modeling, water color tech­nique,
and oil painting. As, ne
could find time from his work,
he painted, and many of his
works placed in the Alabama
Art League's Annual Exhibi­tions.
During the past year, his
oils received first place and
"outstanding painting" at this
exhibition.
In '42, Uncle called, and Al­fred
James got an army serial
number and an air corps patch
for his sleeve. Oddly enough,
since he was an artist and pho­tographer,
he was assigned by
the army to Special Service as
an artist .and photographer.
While serving in the United
States, one of his paintings,
"Abstraction," took third place
in the U. S. Army Annual Show,
exhibited in the West Palm
Beach Galleries.
After a year and a half in the
States, he was shipped overseas
and spent a year recording the
war in the British Isles and
France, being returned to the
States and discharged in '45. On
release from service,'he rejoined
the art staff here, but soon
found that he could not devote
as much time to his own paint­ing
as he wished to, and • after
three quarters resigned to open
his photo studio and to divide
his time between painting and
portrait photography. The busi­ness
has prospered so much so
that in the next two months he
hopes to open a second busi­ness
to supplement the studio.
His dream is of the time that
he can stop working, live from
the income from •his business
ventures, and paint to his
heart's content.
James is the first to admit
that the realization of this am­bition
is many years in the fu­ture,
but with one successful
business started and more com­ing
up it looks like a good
solid dream to build a castle on
for the future.
For Your Information
Last week we published a bill
which has already been intro­duced
to the First Session of
the 80th Congress calling for a
bonus for World War II vet­erans.
On the same page was
an article stating President.
Truman's stand on the pro­posed
bill. His remarks were
summed up in four letters:
V-E-T-O.
Below is one of the bills now
before Congress.
"Be it enacted by the Senate
and the House of Representa­tives
of the United States of
America in Congress assembled.
That the proviso limiting the
t o t a l subsistence allowance
plus compensation payable to
veterans in training programs,
paragraph 6 of part VIII of Vet­erans
Regulation Numbered 1
(a), as amended by section 2 of
Public Law 679, Seventy-ninth
Congress, is hereby repealed,
effective from the date of the
approval of this act."
* * *
We now have copies of ail
legislation passed concerning
veterans since 1898. If there is
any particular bill that you are
interested in, we will publish 5i
for you. We also have 120 offi­cial
copies of bills now before
Congress.
You never can tell about
women and if you can, you
shouldn't.
Amphibian, quoted by Bruce
Patterson, King Features.
All too often a clear con­science
is merely the result of
a bad memory. Proverb quoted
by Nieto Del Rio, Chilean dele­gate
to U.N.
EXPENSIVE ITEMS
By Jack Burke
"Ask The Man Who Owns
One!" We did and, brother, do
they know! Such items cost
dough. Incidently, the subject
is babies (the one and two-year-old
kind) and not Packards.
That Packard slogan, how­ever,
is quite appropriate, for
who knows better what a baby
costs than the veteran wno
owns one.
One of the big mysteries to
him, though, is how in the
deuce does he support them
every month on $90. Oh, yes,
let's not forget the little woman
who knows what to do with
green backs when she gets
them. At any rate, it's a cinch
that on the present subsistence
she can't be a very extravagant
consumer of personal desires.
The single veteran, as most
of you know, is having a dif­ficult
time, himself, getting
along on $65. But when it comes
to a real show down, the mar­ried
veterans, and especially
those with children are defi­nitely
up against a proverbial
brick wall.
Comments on the high food
prices here in our fair com­munity
would be foolish since
this situation, in itself, is a
well-known catastrophe. But
add, say, one or two little ones
on to your roster and then
you're very likely to yell "Mam­ma",
yourself.
Getting down to specific car­ing
for babies, here are a few
vital things to consider. These
are the average costs of one
baby for one month. Medical
checkup, $2, and food and milk,
$15. Fortunately, most of the
wives do the baby's laundry for
such a laundry bill would have
no limit. The above $2 is for
healthy babies and does not in­clude
medicinal care for the
many childhood sicknesses. Just
in case you are interested, the
hospital bill for twins recently
was about $400.
The layette—a complete baby
outfit—for a newly born child
is priced at $75 to $100 and
they usually out grow these
clothes in six months. These
are just a few of the financial
problems involved when work­ing
on the family budget.
As we have stated- before,
our policy is not to clamor for
increase in present subsistence
of $65 and $90 but to advocate
an extra allotment for each
child. This is one provision that
should have accompanied the
GI bill originally.
About 670 veterans on the
Auburn campus own one or
more of these expensive items.
Just between you and me,
guys, that's & lot of babies.
Anyway you look at it, ba­bies
are expensive — whether
they're one day old or 20 years
I old.
"Jasbo", said I, "this housing
situation is really getting rough.
I have to live a mile and a half
from town and when I get to
my room after meals, I've
worked off all the energy I had
and am ready to look for food
again. That would be OK ex­cept
that I can't afford the food
I do eat, such as it is. What
sort of place do you have?"
We were, as usual, in a cor­ner
booth at the Grill, and as
I finished my cup of mud and
reordered, he began: "Just now
I got a section of a culvert out
past Graves Center. Really
kinda cozy now that I got the
ends walled up, and it's all
mine—till they gets around to
puttin' in the culvert/ Then it
might get sorta damp when it
rains as it always does. I got
me a winder cut in one end
wit curtins on it and slung me
a hammock slaunchwise. It gits
a mite chilly sometimes, but I
ain't froze up yit and likely
wont. The water tricles through
on the floor, but comes a cold
snap I got me a nize frozen
pond in the "house" and can
keep warm by ice skating."
"You haven't been there all
the time, have you?" I inquired
over the rim of my cup.
"Naw, but this place sure
beats my old one. Don't look so
serprized, now. Jest lissen."
I listened—what else could I
do?
"That first place was the only
place I could find when I came
down here to school. Seems that
t mm® CO&CflG
this feller had rented a hall
closet, but being as they couldnt
cram anybody else into it they
called it a private room and
soaked him twenty five bucks
a month fer it. That wus too
much, but one nite he found a
mousehole in the corner, and
decided to sublet it to help pay
his rent."
"And you rented the mouse-hole?"
I asked, setting the cup
down.
"Yep, but I couldn't stand it.
It wusn't the size—I'd figgered
on that. It wuzn't the draft,
cause I stuffed rags in the
cracks in the wall, t wuzn't ever,
the sound of the homeless mice
sobbin in the darkness, but
when those mice started re-arrangin
the furniture while I
wuz gone so I tripped oyer it
in the dark, I quit and got me
the culvert."
"Jasbo", I said, "you don't
know how lucky you are to be
able to change size. Most,of us
have to find someplace to fit
us instead of changing to fit
the place, and everyplace that
will hold a normaal sized per­son
seems to be taken and
spoken for well into the future.
We've heard a lot about beauti­ful
new dormitories, but we
haven't seen any of them. The
school has put up a bunch of
two story barracks, but they
shouldn't be insisting that the
folks that live there have to
eat there. It sounds too much
like those "tie-in" deals that
were cooked up to get around
rationing and shortages of mer­chandise.
If this housing project
is really non profit like it is
supposed to be, how come a
man has to take the package.
Sure, the men that live at the
dormitories ought to have pri­orities
on the meals, .but it
ought to be optional. If the col­lege
cafeteria can compete with
the p r o f i t making boarding
houses and restaurants of the
town," they'll have a full house
without forcing the issue. If
they don't measure up, some­thing
ought to be done to im­prove
the situation. Let's have
mofe of these dormitories, less
red tape, fewer strings on what
a man has to buy that he
doesn't want, and I guess that
life will begin to look practi­cal.
Meanwhile, Jasbo, do < you
know where I can find an­other
one of those culverts? I
gotta have a place to live till
I can find a room."
"Sorry," he replied sadly,
"the last culvert was taken
four months ago."
Haygood To Address A V A Thursday
HOMEWORK FOR TWO
Army Air Corps veteran Bill Goodman, of Auburn, and
his two-year old son Dickie (above) are %njoying studying
home work together at their Graves Center apartment.
Goodman is a former B-17 pilot in the ETO. At the present
he is serving as assistant API News Bureau Photographer
and is a sophomore in Aeronautical Engineering.
"Voice of The Veteran" Covers
The Army Reserve Corps Units
Reserve Units Need Support Of People
For The Protection Of Our Nation
Once again the "Voice of The
Veteran" hit the jackpot in
promoting a top-notch show.
With Colonel Samuel A. Dick­son,
Assistant P.M.S.&T. at
API, as guest, the radio staff of
Jack Burke, Steve Maddox and
Bob Turner conducted an in­terview
concerning the Army
Reserve Corps.
There will be several Army
reserve units, or civilian com­ponents
of the Army under the
present post-war. plan. One of
these is the National Guard,
which is composed of up-to-date,
fully organized units,
which are state controlled in
peace time. Then there are the
Organized Reserve Corps Units,
the Officer's Reserve Corps
and the Enlisted Reserve Corps,
and the Reserve Officers Train­ing
Corps.
For planning purposes, these
organizations and personnel im­mediately
available on Mobili­zation
Day are termed Strength
in Being, those later available
are called the Reserve. Strength
in Being consists of (1) The
Regular Army, (2) The Nation­al
Guard of the -United States,
and (3) those units of the
Organized Reserve Corps kept
in such a state of readiness as
to be available immediately as
an M-Day force. The reserve
consists of all other units and
personnel of the .Organized Re­serve
Corps.
The ORC, in the U.S. tradi­tion
of the civilian soldier, is a
federally controlled body of
qualified civilian officers and
enlisted personnel, distinct from
the National Guard, who volun­tarily
elect to serve their coun­try
in a military status during
peace time as well as war.
Complete defense plans in­clude
a R e g u l a r Army of
875,000, a National Guard of
680,000, and about 3,000,000 Re­serves.
This will make a total
strength of about 4,500,000 a
year after M-Day.
Enlistments in the ERC are
Letter To The Editor
After reading the article "Low
Flying D a n g e r o u s ; Nearly
Claims Victim" in The Veter­an's
Journal, I would like to
say a few things concerning the
article.
I saw the plane come over on
the buzz run and the pilot had
enough altitude to clear any and
all trees in or around Auburn.
I've spent quite a few hours
in an airplane off the ground.
I have a fair knowledge of their
construction and various flight
characteristics. I have reached
the conclusion that this parti­cular
plane and pilot were
somewhat unusual.
There are two ways, that I
can think of, that a pilot could
hit a tree, rip off ten feet of
fuselage, recover and keep the
plane in the air. One way is
provided his depth perception
was very good, in fact, good
enough to measure the thickness
of the skin of the plane, which
is .020 inches, the pilot could
make his approach to the tree
kick the plane into a violent
skid, hook the fuselage on the
tree, and then recover before
the tail assembly strikes the
tree and flies merrily on his
way. Of course, the absence of
such a small portion of the fuse­lage
would not affect the flight
characteristics of the plane and
the pilot would not have any
difficulties in handling the
plane. The second method is to
make the approach, do a half
roll, hook the fuselage on the
tree, and then recover from the
roll before the tail assembly
could strike the tree. Care must
be taken not to damage the
canopy or propeller. You gotta
be fast to do this.
Of course, the rate of roll and
sensitivity of control of the air­craft
and the pilot's mental and
physical reaction must be taken
into consideration.
Surely Uncle Sam needs more
pilots and planes that can do
what this pilot and plane have
done.
Questionably yours.
An Observant Student
We want to thank the writer
of this sharp letter and con­gratulate
him on his magnifi­cent
powers of observation.
However, the author of the arti­cle
still adheres to his version
of the incident claiming to have
several witnesses to vouch for
his views on the subject. We
suggest that the writer contact
the Vet Journal and discuss the
pro and cons with the author.
The Editor
Guilty Conscience!
By Jim Watson
Every night about 12:30,
just before you hit the sack,
does a sudden sensation flash
through your brain remind­ing
you of the awful things
you did that day? Are you
really sorry that you squirted
sulphuric acid into the eyes
of your chemistry professor?
Aren't you really ashamed
of yourself for tripping the
crippled man on the bus just
to make sure you got the seat
first? Do you think you will
ever be forgiven for not tell­ing
the bank teller that he
forgot to charge you 78 cents
for cashing your $11.75 check?
In short, does your conscience
bother you?
Why lose sleep any longer
over misdeeds when you can
actually correct some of them.
The main thing you can do
that will count the most is to
join the AVA today, if you
have not done so already.
You can join in the office of
the Veterans Coordinator in
Samford Hall. Members of
AVA will also be waiting
with open arms in front of
Langdon Hall today and to­morrow.
Then you can settle back
in your sack and relax with­out
a worry on your brain.
Such peace—such comfort—
such dreams—zzzzzzz.
Auburn Needs
Enterprising Vets
As many veterans as there
are at API, there should be
many more veteran-operated
enterprises.
One of the most needed busi­nesses
in town is another bar­ber
shop. All of the present
barber shops in town are kept
busy practically all of the time,
and often a customer has to wait
several minutes' before he can
get a chair.
If any of 3£ou G.I. Joes who
used to shave heads are inter­ested
in going into the barber
business, the Veterans Admin­istration
will be glad to ar­range
GI loans and help locate
necessary materials.
Start a veterans barber shop
and we will all get clipped!
entirely voluntary. At present,
acceptances are being restricted
to veterans of World War II. If
the Army's proposed system of
Universal Military Training is
adopted, it is expected that
many will enlist voluntarily.
The War -Department feels, in
fact, that the adoption of Uni­versal
Military Training is nec­essary
to assure an adequate
supply of enlisted reservists.
All of these reserve units
need the support of the peo­ple—
and with adequate support
our Organized Reserve Corps
will stand—as have the Minute-men
of the past—for the pro­tection
of our Nation.
DON'T TELL ME
As Reprinted from Hobo
News.
Don't tell me about that swell
gal you've got
Don't tell me how lovely she
is.
Don't mention her charms as
she lies in your arms
Or the thrill she packs in a
kiss.
Don't tell me how lovely she1
is from her feet
To the crown of her sleek
golden head.
Don't speak of the passion
that lurks in her eyes
Nor the sweetness of her lips,
ruby red.
Don't tell me how tender and
loving and kind
She is when you've turned
down the light.
Don't tell me about all the
nice things she says
When you've all cuddled up,
close and tight.
Don't tell me how gladly re­sponsive
she is
To your every touch and ca­ress—
Don't spoil it all, Brother, for
crying out loud
Just tell me her NAME and
ADDRESS!!!
Prominent Speaker Will
Discuss Vital Subject
Progress Of Auburn Wholesale Food
Plans To Be Reported On At Meeting
The Auburn Veteran's Association will present at its next
regular meeting Thursday, March 6th, seven p. m. in Langdon
Hall, the prominent Dr. Claude M. Haygood, Montgomery, as its
guest speaker.
Dr. Haygood, Director of Americanism in Alabama, an im­portant
section of the American Legion, will discuss the vital
————————— importance of Americanism, a
GUEST SPEAKER
-
Dr. Claude M. Haygood
APPOINTED—
"Diamond Jim" W a t s o n,
former Editor-in-chief of The
Veteran's Journal, has been
appointed as special price in­vestigator
for the A.V.A. by
President Herb Holdsambeck.
Watson is being replaced as
Editor temporarily by Jack
Burke, assistant Editor. Rea­son
for the change is to give
the energetic Watson a bet­ter
opportunity io'iiudy the
local price situation^.,..
subect that affects the future of
us all. For the past year this
g r e a t Alabamian has been
speaking over the state on
Americanism and has appeared
before some 35,000 people with
this significant message.
An alumnus of Auburn, Dr.
Haygood, is a veteran of two
wars. During the first war he
was a private in the S.A.T.C.
and remembers "guarding the
buildings at Auburn- zealously
with a rifle (but no ammuni­tion)."
In the recent conflict he
was a Navy Chaplain for three
years serving on a large Air
Station, and later at Base Hos­pital
No. 3, in the South Paci­fic.
Dr. Haygood welcomes not
only veterans to hear his vital
speech but any one who is in­terested
in preserving our way
of life.
In addition to the guest
speaker, the A.V.A. will also
offer progress reports on the
wholesale food campaign now
underway. All boarding houses
and fraternity representatives
are urged to be present.
The membership campaign is
still going strong and the drive
will be underway again on
March 5th and 6th in front of
Langdon Hall. Arrangements
have ben made to solicit new
members at the meeting.
Ruptured Duck Quacks
Contrary to popular belief,
water, when taken in modera­tion,
will have no ill effects on
the consumer.
* * *
Mac: Let's cut history today.
Joe: I can't. I need the sleep.
* * *
Little Johnny brought home
his report card, -and with it a
note from the teacher.
"Dear Mrs. Jones:' said the
note. "Johnny is a bright boy,
but he spends all of his time
with the little girls. I'm trying
to think up a way to cure him."
Mrs. Jones studied the note,
then wrote the teacher as fol­lows:
"Dear Miss Smith: If you
find a way to cure him, please
let me know. I'm having the
same trouble with his old man."
* * *
Husband: Let's have some fun
this evening.
Wife: O. K., please leave the
hall light on if you get in be­fore
I do.
* * *
Funeral Director (young and
ambitious) How old are you sir.
Aged Mourner: I'm 98.
F. D.: Hardly worth going
home, is it?
* * *
Most women not only keep
their girlish figures—they dou­ble
them.,
* * *
Another Chemical Engineer
has developed a process to uti­lize
donut holes to stuff maca­roni.
* j[J *
Junior: Say, how old are you?
Sot Tot: Well, I don't know.
I'm either four or five.
Junior: Do you dream of
beautiful women?
Sot Tot: No, I don't.
Junior: Then you are four,
I'm five.
* * *
Alpha Cholera: What would
you do if I kissed you?
Phi Letti Psi: I'd call my
brother.
A.C.: And how old is your
brother?
P.L.P.: Two years.
* * *
Illegibility — A doctor's pre­scription
written with a post
office pen in the^back seat of
a jeep.
Broadway — A place where
people spend money they have­n't
earned to buy things they
don't need to impress people
they don't like.
Tobacco — Found in many
Southern States and in some
cigarettes.
English—The universal lang­uage,
spoken almost every­where
now except in England
and Boston.
* * *
"What do you think of civili­zation?'!
"It's # a swell idea. Someone
iought to try it."
* * *
| Vet Journal reporter: Don't
you find it rather expensive
letting the children drive nails
:in the furniture?
C h i l d Psychology Student:
Oh, no, we get the nails whole­sale.
THE VETERAN'S JOURNAL
THE VETERANS JOURNAL is published by the authority
of the Auburn Publication Board, being accepted December 9,
1946. It is published weekly as an insert of THE PLAINSMAN
and the staff consists of veterans attending Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. The office of THE VETERANS JOURNAL is located
at 331 Armstrong Street, Auburn, Alabama, Phone 952.
Jack Burke
Virginia Riley
Editor-in-Chief .
Assistant Editor
Associate Editors .__ _ Jim Watson
James Hunnicut
Feature Writers _ Steve Maddox, Bill Ervine,
Bob Turner, Donald Allen,
and Norma Manning
Cartoonists ...? Moriarity, Bob Warner
Correspondence Manager Kyle DeShazo
Auburn Building Expansion Program
Under Direction of Sam Brewster
By Taylor Lumpkin
If John De La Fontaine could, have looked into the fu­ture
when he wrote, "By the work, one knows the work­man,"
there's no doubt that he would have seen Sam F.
Brewster, dynamic director of buildings and grounds at
Auburn.
Lumpkin
vatcd college
Within less than one year Mr.
Brewster's department has en­abled
Auburn to take care of
ils present enrollment of 6,300
students, increased from 4,000
last year.
Since last February there has
been made available for Au­burn
students a 220-lot trailer
camp 125 one, two, and three
r o o m apart-m
e n t s for
married vet­erans,
93 deck
h o u s e s to
h o u s e 185
men 15 temp­orary
0 dormi­tories
to ac­comodate
585
s i n g l e stu­dents,
reno-houses
to care
for 100 single men, and 69 twe-bedroom
apartments for mar­ried
veterans.
From t h e s e projects will
evolve a permanent long range
plan of a greater API which
will be completed within the
next 10 to 15 years. There are
20 new buildings in the master
plan — dormitories, classroom?,
gymnasiums, and landscaping
changes.
Projects Under Construction
The contract for the men's
dormitory now under construc­tion
has been awarded to Dan­iel
Construction Co., Birming­ham
and Greenville, S. C.
"The work is now 15 per cent
completed," Mr. Brewster said.
"It will house 450 men with a
kitchen and cafeterial to feed
that many. It is to be a perma­nent
construction, and will have
a value of slightly more than
one million dollars, furnished
and ready to go."
"Construction has also start­ed
on a new forestry building
to be located behind the animal
husbandry building, facing west
on Mell Street. Its value will
be approximately $200,000", Mr.
Brewster said.
Mr. Brewster also related that
the contract has been let for
a central heating plant to be
located behind Drake Infirm­ary.
The plant will supply heat
for the new men's dormitory,
and other buildings in that im­mediate
vicinity as well as fu­ture
buildings.
Preliminary plans have been
completed for an agriculture
building, Building and Grounds
office and warehouse, audi­torium,
student union building,
administration building, class­room
building, and a new dorm­itory
group for women.
Preliminary plans are not en­tirely
completed for industrial
engineering shops, gym, home
economics building, architec­ture
and arts building, veteri­nary
building, additional gen­eral
classroom building, and a
swimming pool and bath house.
Temporary Projects
There are also under con­struction
on the campus tempo­rary
buildings to meet the pres­ent
emergency. To be com­pleted
by March 20, 1947 are ten
classroom units to accommo­date
50 students each, and a
veteran's book store.
A pharmacy laboratory build­ing
of 3000 square feet will be
•completely equipped and ready
Wednesday, March 5, THE PLAINSMAN—3
Hensel Speaks In Defense
Of Parson's'1400 Club*
By Len Hensel
"The time is 3:30 and t h a t means it is time for t h e 1400
Club—-hyuk, hyuk, hyuk." Many, if not all of you, a r e fa­miliar
with that introduction, and especially that laugh.
Many of you probably feel that, this world would rotate,
much smoother without that program, and t h a t laugh.
Before presenting a defense
of that gentleman from WJHO,
let's look' into his background.
Ben hails from that little city
across the border called Colum­bus,
Ga. He became interested
in radio while working as a
jerk (soda, that is) in a small
drug store. In 1942, he started
to work for a station in Colum­bus
as an announcer. One bright
Sunday afternoon in 1943, Ben
came over to WJHO for a visit.
Manager Marion H y a t t (of
Alarm Clock fame)-offered him
STUDENT SUPPLIES
School books and supplies are available at
reasonable prices
Basement Samford Hall
Phone 960-Extension 347
COLLEGE SUPPLY STORE
for classes by June 1, 1947. Also
a storage building of approxi­mately
1000 square feet to sup­plement
Graves Dining Hall
will be ready by this date.
Two cafeterias complete with
equipment to feed a total of
1500 students are expected to
be completed by September
1947.
"It is impossible to begin the
large expansion program until
after veteran's h o u s i n g is
taken care of nationally," Mr.
Brewster states, "As soon as
labor and materials are avail­able
in large quantities, we will
begin work on the way toward
Greater Auburn."
for Engineers
What is CV?
CV is the answer to a tough problem. It stands for
Continuous Vulcanization — a process developed by
Western Electric engineers to speed-up and improve
production of rubber-insulated telephone wire. It
proved so efficient a process that more than thirty
outside manufacturers have introduced CV into
their plants.
Under previous methods, the rubber compound
was fed by hand into a forcing or tubing machine
which extruded it upon the wire. I he conductor
with this unvulcanized covering.was coiled in pans
in a layer of powdered soapstonc and silted chalk,
with each flat coil separated from its neighbor by
another layer of soapstonc and chalk. The insulated
wire in the soapstonc and pan was afterwards placed
in a steam vulcanizing oven and cured for approxi­mately
45 minutes. An additional reeling or coiling
operation was required and the complete process
took from one to three hours depending on the in­sulation
wall thickness.
Now the continuous insulating and vulcanizing
machine — developed and built by Western Electric
engineers—does the whole job in one operation.
Rubber compound and bare wire are both fed con­tinuously
into one end of the machine and then
through steam at high pressure which cures the
rubber insulation in approximately 7 seconds. The
insulated wire is taken up on reels in continuous
lengths up to 30,000 feet in a fraction of the time
required under the old panning process.
Halving the steps on Step-by-Step
Simplifying production of over 1,000,000 Step-by-
Step "banks" per year—for use in dial telephone:
exchanges—gave Western Electric engineers an in-,
teresting assignment.
One of several types of "hanks" consists of 200
brass terminals, assembled in 10 levels, the termi­nals
of each level accurately positioned on a crescent
shaped phenol fibre insulator which separates them
from the next level. The entire assembly occupies a
space of but AYz" x 2Y>" x \Yi'. Initially, banks
were made in ten steps: (1) spray varnish on phenol
fibre strips; (2) punch insulators from these strips;
(3) punch individual terminals from coils of brass
sheet; (4) assemble a preliminary pileup, picking up
each terminal by hand,—200,000,000 per year, and
accurately positioning it on the varnished insulator;
(5) bake; (6) compress to secure terminals to var­nished
surface of insulators and then dismantle pre­liminary
pileup; (7) make final assembly, inserting
additional insulators and spacers; (8) bake; (9)
compress and tighten clamping screws; (10) cut off
excess length of screws and line ream mounting holes,
a job with the .local station.
Ben immediately accepted the
job and since then has become
more'and more popular with
the folks within listening ra­dius
of WJHO. At the present
time, Ben is a staff announcer
and musical director of the sta­tion.
In the early part of 1944 the
need for an afternoon request
show was seen, and Ben was
designated to take care of it. It
started out as a 15-minute re­quest
show, but as' it grew in
popularity, more a n d more
sponsors asked to have their
plugs put on that program. Mr.
Hyatt, being a man of vision,
lengthened the program to one-half
hour.
In spite of the ever-increasing
complaints about his 1400 Club,
Ben's mailbox is usually full of
requests, w h i c h still come
pouring in. As the complaints
increase, so do the letters. All
this seems to indicate the up­swing
in the volume of his
listeners. Ben said, "When
The API Symphony Orchestra, which will perform Mon­day,
March II, in Langdon Hall..
Anniston Visited
By AlChE Group
Under the direction of Dr. C.
A. Basore, head of chemical
engineering department, mem­bers
of AIChE visited the Mont-sano
Chemical Plant at Annis­ton
Saturday.
Approximately 35 students
were included in the field trip,
one of several planned to ob­serve
different industries in
this area.
complaints cease to come in
about my -1400 Club, then I
know I'll have to change the
style of my program." In other
words, he is using a little basic
psychology. Everyone says they
hate his program with a pas­sion,
yet the same people will
admit that they wouldn't miss
it.
Another point that must.be
made is the fact that he isn't
running the program primarily
for the benefit of the college
students. (In spite of the fact
that the college students think
that every business enterprise
within a radius of 20 miles of
Auburn is primarily for their
benefit.) Ben pointed out that
the Alarm Clock Club is for the
entertainment of the college
students as well as the student
programs such as, "Spotlights
on Auburnites," "Tiger Varie­ties",
Veteran's program, "The
Auburn Roundtable," etc. He j
IAS ELECTS OFFICERS
Members of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences met last
week in Ramsay Hall and elect­ed
officers. Wilbur H. Reed,
Sigma Nu from Montgomery
and a junior in AE, was elected
to the position of chairman
Lionel L. Levy, senior in AE
from Mobile, was chosen secre­tary.
William R. Robinson, vice
chairman, and Reese H. Brick-en,
treasurer, retained their of­fices.
IAS met for its last time this
quarter last night.
Dr. Pepinsky Talks
On Crystallography
Audience Is Auburn
Branch Of ACS
"Identification of Compounds
by Means of Examination, of
their Crystal Structure" was
the subject of a talk recently
delivered by Dr. Raymond
Pepinsky of the API Physics
Department to members of the
Auburn Student Branch of the
American Chemical Society.
While two other methods
, were mentioned — observation
of type, and effect on light—
the technique particularly dis­cussed
was that of x-ray crys­tallography.
Examples of dif­ferent
types of equipment used
in this work were displayed.
The American Chemical So­ciety
meets twice each month.
While only sophomores, juniors,
and seniors in the School of
Chemistry may be admitted to
membership, any student desir­ing
to attend these informative
discussions is cordially invited.
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people to entertain than just
college students. They must
cater to the rural element, the
townspeople, and the h i gh
school kids. Ben said it is- the
high school groups that he
hopes to please because that is
just about the only program
that those kids really enjoy.
He doesn't want anyone to feel
slighted by that remark, but he
does want people to understand
that.
In reference to the animals
he • has been presenting on his
program recently, an elderly
matron recently stopped him
on the street in Opelika and
said, "That barnyard you've
been accumulating on your pro­gram
is beginning to take 3ii
an odor."
Episcopal Group
Elects Officers
The Canterbury Club, Episco­pal
student organization, elected
officers for the spring and sum­mer
quarters. New officers are
Ralph Bailey, president; Gordon
Hill, vice president; Eleanor
Hannum, secretary; and Har-ald
Hartwig, treasurer.
The Club has announced that
Wednesday a f t e r n o o n open
house will continue from four
until six in the Youth Center.
All Episcopal students and their
friends are invited to attend
these services and meetings.
Alpha Gamma Rho
Elects Officers
New officers elected to serve
XI Chapter of Alpha Gamma
Rho this year are Jack Tuck­er;
president; Harold Gibson,
vice . president; Howard John­son,
treasurer; Warren Brown­ing,
secretary; and Windell
Vickery, reporter.
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4^-THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, March 5,1947 GLOME RAT A ELECTION MONDAY
We Need A Central Placement Bureau
Already up to their ears in admini­strative
matters, we're not too sure the
higher-ups of this old institution will
appreciate a suggestion as to one more
service they should look into, but never­theless
we believe the students and
graduates of Auburn are being short­changed
on at least one score. Why
doesn't an institution the size of this
one have a central placement bureau?
Maybe you haven't thought too much
about that yet—if you're a freshman or
a sophomore—but wait until you're a
second or third quarter senior with job-hunting
on your mind.
A central placement bureau on the
campus would be no small undertaking;
doubtless it would require a full-time
head and no small amount of clerical
help, but isn't it a service API owes its
students, who spend three or four years
and a sizeable amount of money here?
A placement bureau should certainly
perform two major functions:
(1) It should seek information and
have available for the students every­thing
there is to know about prospec­tive
jobs—with specific potential em­ployers—
in every field of training of­fered
on the campus. It should serve as
a cleaning house for all communications
which come to the institution regarding
possible placement of serriors or gradu­ates.
(2) It should, both for the benefit of
possible employers and its graduates,
keep a complete file on each student
leaving this institution—and we do not
mean simply a transcript of grades,
but rather a comhpresensive analysis
of the student's interests and qualifica­tions.
Some of the schools on the campus do
make an effort to place students maj­oring
in their particular fields. In En­gineering,
Mr. J. D. Wade is Head of the
Placement Bureau, but only in addition
to being Assistant to the Dean. In Edu­cation,
Dean Judd acts as go-between
for school principals and would - be
teachers—also in addition to his duties
as Dean of the School of Education.
Other schools on the campus may have
some such system. But ask any dean or
director, and our guess is that he'd tell
you he'd be more than glad to turn
placement work over to a central bu­reau,
where records could be kept
systematically, every possible source of
employment contacted, and trained per­sonnel
emplo3^ed to handle administra­tion,
interviewing, and clerical work
attached to such an undertaking.
Certainly the individual deans should
not be called upon to accept this re­sponsibility,
especially now at a time
when it takes their very best to meet
current problems of trying to maintain
scholastic standards with students clam­oring
to get in and needed instructors
turning a cold shoulder on teaching
(and not without cause). Picture a dean
in the throes of pre-registration, trying
to squeeze 65 students into a 101 Eng­lish
section with a capacity of 40, get-an
inquiry about a former student who
is being considered for an important
job. Even though his intentions are the
best, does that dean have time to look
up all records and consult all sources of
information to give a reference for that
alumnus? Chances are, he'll forward a
transcript to the "XXX Company" and
let it go at that, and grades are not al­ways
what a prospective employer is
interested in, nor should they be. But
the job of a- central placement bureau—
without problems or registration or hir­ing
faculty to harrass it—would be to
have the desired information on tap
and supply it in concise form to the
would-be employer.
When Sam Sanders gets ready to
make his plans for a job, say a quarter
before he graduates, where can he go
for complete information about the best
companies to work for in his field—
what they have to offer in the way of
training, salaries, and chance for ad­vancement?
How many deans have time
to sit down and give each graduate the
careful attention he needs along these
lines—even if the dean has such infor­mation
available? But at a central
placement bureau, the student would
find an advisor ready to talk with him
and all types of printed information
handy for study.
API officials, when that new admini­stration
building is planned, please
don't overlook a central placement
bureau, and if you could give us one
sooner, we'd join in the big WAR
EAGLE.
Why Shouldn't Auburn Play Alabama?
The Crimson-White, official student
paper of the University of Alabama, is
also advocating resumption of athletic
relationship between Auburn and Ala­bama.
The C-W maintains that Alabama stu­dents
are in favor of such a move. The
Plainsman speaks, without slightest
fear of contradiction, that Auburn stu­dents
are whole-heartedly in favor of
the same move.
In mentioning that Governor James
E. Folsom, during his recent visit to
Auburn, spoke favorably of Alabama
meeting Auburn on the gridiron, the
Chimson-White went on to say, "Every­one
here (at the University) knows that
the possibility of an API-Alabajna foot­ball
game is one of the stock subjects
to which University bull sessions often
turn. In other words, everyone seems
to be in favor of renewed sports com­petition
between the two leading schools
of the state, but no one ever seems to
do anything about it. Gov. Folsom may
be the answer . . . "
"North Carolina and Duke, Georgia
and Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Van-derbilt,
Ole Miss and Miss State, LSU
and Tulane, just to mention immediate
intra-state rivals, and the people of
their states are provided with classical
thrillers . . . "
"All discussions on the subject con­cede
that no stadium in the state would
be large enough to accommodate the
spectators wanting to witness a Tide-
Tiger clash. But that should be no
drawbeck. Denny Stadium is always too
small for the potential Homecoming
coming crowd here, but that does not
prevent Alabama from having a Home­coming
every year. . . "
"The interfraternity councils of Au­burn
and the University have scheduled
an annual game between the winners of
interfraternity basketball play at the
two schools. This year Auburn's Sigma
Chi quintet will tee off against the win­ner
of our Greek finals. Also Alabama
and Auburn have been vieing together
on the same field in direct SEC track
competition . . . "
"But in the field of major sports, the
two schools cling to an almost Dark
Ages tradition of never playing each
other. No practical reason for doing so
is ever advanced. It is just a condition
that exists with all parties concerned
almost secretly wondering why . . ."
"But now with students of both
schools almost clamoring for Alabama-
API competition, and the state admini­stration
apparently viewing the idea
sympathetically, it seems that the time
is a£ hand for some serious sounding off
on the matter so that concrete action
instead of merely a few dozen bushels
of words results."
DoNutS and Coffee ByBabs Just One Voice
By Jim Bradley
This and That B/0,e Timer
The last issue of The Plainsman and the Lee County
Bulletin carried notices that effective April 1 the zoning
laws with respect to trailers will be strictly enforced. Exact­ly
what this means I don't know. But if it does mean that
a single trailer occupied by a student will have to be moved,
then something which would
make an impression on the City
Council should be done. I'm
afraid, though, that what I
would suggest doing would be
entirely illegal — in fact, men
have been sent to jail for life
for less.
I have heard of lots of col­lege
towns where part of the
overflow of students was ac­comodated
in trailers. And I
have yet to hear of one where
the zoning laws in connection
with trailers were not suspend­ed
for the duration of the
emergency.
I have just one more word to
say to the City Council: Wake
up, gentlemen. The housing
situation is critical. Do every­thing
you can to help it and
remember that without the stu­dents
here at the college, Loa-chapoka
would be a large place
compared with Auburn. And
don't forget that if it weren't
for the same students the town
wouldn't be getting rich off the
ridiculous cigarette tax you saw
fit to impose.
* * *
Words—And More Words
Somebody, sometime when
he had nothing else to do, con­ducted
a survey to determine
the sweetest and saddest words
in the English language. The
results were not surprising.
Voted the sweetest were "I love
you"; " D i n n e r is served'';
"Sleep 'til noon"; "Here's that
five"; "Keep the change"; and
"All is forgiven".
The saddest were "External
use only"; "Out of gas"; "Buy
me one"; "Dues not paid";
"Funds not sufficient" and
"Rest in peace".
* * *
Hashimuri Togo on the Banana
The banana are great remark­able
fruit. He are constructed
in the same architectural style
as the honorable sausage. Dif­ference
being, skin of sausage
are habitually consumed, while
it is not advisable to eat wrap­ping
of banana. Banana are
held aloft while consuming,
sausage usualy left in reclining
position. Sausage depend for
creation upon human being or
stuffing machine while banana
are pristine product of nature.
In case of sausage, both con­clusions
attached to other saus­ages,
honorable banana on oth­er
hand are joined on one end
to stem, other termination are
entirely loose. Finally, banana
are strictly member of vegeta­ble
kingdom while affiliation
of sausage is often undecided.
* * *
Warning
The admonition of the week
goes to the person who had the
unforunate accident on the
front campus:—People who sit
on stone benches should not
carry glass bottles.
EDITOR'S SCRIBBLES
LU&USTA %miwiou
Published weekly by the students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
Editorial and business office on Tichenor Avenue, Phone 448.
JIMMY COLEMAN, Editor-in-Chief
Ralph Jennings, Managing Editor
Seab Hayes
Luther Smith, Associate Editors
Frank Sego, _ '_...
Bill Dearman, SP o r t s E d l t o rS
Beverley Burkhardt, Society Editor
Leonard Hooper, Feature Editor'
C. RAY MARTIN, Business Manager
Frank Keown, Advertising Manager
Bill Anderson, Circulation Manager
Hal Breedlove, Assistant Business Manager
Bob Williams, Assistant Advertising Mgr.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates
by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months.
An Auburn pre-veterinary
student, home in New Orleans
during the summer holidays,
wore a tee-shirt with the ini­tials
"API" on it. The first
words uttered by a friend were,
"API? Where's that—I thought
you went to Auburn!"
That was in New Orleans. It
happens in New York. It hap­pens
everywhere. People simp­ly
don't know where API is—
furthermore, when you patient­ly
explain that the initials 'APF
mean Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
— they don't seem to
care.
The trouble with quite a few
people is that they are content
with things as they are. There
are, no doubt, some people who
would be satisfied to say, "Well,
what difference does it make
whether it's Auburn or API or
what-have-you."
These people aren't awake to
the advantages of API being
changed to "Auburn Universi­ty."
The good will of the public
will be strengthened by official
adoption of a popular name.
Certainly, when our institution
sheds the name of API, no one
will make the mistake of ad­dressing
a letter to the Alabama
'Polynomial" Institution as was
the case several months ago.
When the football team takes
to the field and "War Eagle"
rents the air, the announcer
does not say, "—and now the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Tigers are ready for the kick-off"
—it's the name Auburn
Tigers' that he uses. The an­nouncer
does no more than bor­row
the name. This is the pay­off.
If something has to be bor­rowed
again and again, and
again — why not obtain that
'certain something' permanent­ly?
If the present state of con­fusion
remains in the minds of
thousands upon thousands who
are vague as to what API
means, where it is, and what
its connection with Auburn is—
only one place suffers — Au­burn.
Favorable publicity will help
Auburn. Auburn cannot get fa­vorable
publicity if it continues
to be muddled over micro­phones
as API and such other
uninteresting a n d confusing
names as Alabama 'Polytechni-cal'
Institute. • • •
For the information of those
who are not in favor of a change
of names, it must be brought to
light that records show that in
1872 the name Alabama Agri­cultural
and Mechanical Col­lege
was adopted. Twenty-seven
years later, in recognition of
the expanding services of the
college, it was changed to Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. For
48 years it has held the name
API—and in these 48 years the
college has definitely expand­ed.
The College is not in the era
of buckle shoes nor a shaving
mug for every customer. Times
have changed.
Let's hope that the name of
the college will charge with
the times. It did in 1899. Why
can't it do the same in 1947?
Student: "What's the date,
sir?"
Professor: (absently) "Never
mind the date. Finish the ex­am."
Student: (in hurt voice) "I
just wanted to have something
right, sir?"—Boulder.
* * *
Foolish question
"Got something in your eye?"
"Naw! Just t r y i n g to see
through my thumb."—Log.
* * *
And they called her "the
kind of a girl who likes to eai
her cake and yours too!"
* * *
True Confessions:
"You are the first model I've
ever kissed."
"Really? How many have
you had?"
"Four: an apple, a vase, a
banana, and you".—Puppet.
* * *
O. O. Mclnfyre: "My morning
after headache was built for a
hippopotamus."
* * *
That moment of exposure:
"How kind of you," said the
girl, "to bring me these lovely
flowers. They are so beautiful
and fresh. I believe there is
some dew on them yet."
"Yes," stammered the young
man in great embarrassment,
"but I am going to pay it all
off tomorrow."—Exchange.
graphed the convict in six po­sitions.
He escaped. Out went i „ _ , *,,„* T • ~ J
:. . . • • ,, , learn that I nave some readers
the six pictures all over the
It is surely a great feeling to
l-s
who have time enough to sit
country. A reoly came from the j , _ . , . , , ? • .
, „ . ,,, x " down and write nice letters to me
marshall of a small town: Pic- +„ii;„„ f +u • . U1 T .
. . , . , telling of their troubles. Last
tures of criminals received; „«.„v T ,„ „• J in. * _
' week I received a letter from a
have captured five of them; on
traWil isoef sGixuthy. " (boarding early
bus): "Well, Noah, is the Ark
full?"
more jackass
West Pointer".
Come on in.':
lady who signed her letter WOR­RIED
MOTHER . . . In this let­ter
she said that she was the
mother of two children and was
expecting a third, but, she stated,
"I am worried because I have
Driver: "Nope^ We need one j u s t r e a d m t h e p a p e r t h a t e v e l^
third baby born in the world is
CHINESE." Now this dear lady
is asking me for advice on some-
Every man is a volume if you thing that I am no authority on,
but I am going to answer her in
this column.
Dear Worried Mother, Have no
fear, unless . . . well have no
fear . . . Jim.
While I'm on the subject of
know how to read him."—Mar
garef Fuller,
"How are the children com
ing along?"
"Fine! Tony wants to be a
racketeer. Mollys wants to be a women I want to mention that
chorus girl." the other day a friend of mine
"But, what happened to Al?" asked me what I thought of
"Oh, Al? Why, we had to women. I,„ cannot write in this
hoot him. He wanted to go to column what I think of women
college."—Pelican.
* * *
"I spent a year in that town,
one Sunday."—Warwick Deep­ing.
* * *
A motorist had an accident
with his car. He limped pain-for
if I did the editor wouldn't
print it and even if he did print
it there are so few people low-life
enough to comprehend the
language that I would use in re­gard
to these creatures . . . and
they don't date women.
* * *
I suppose some of my readers
Policeman up-to-the-minute:
The Big City police photo
turtle. Come get me."
The answer was: Can't do it.
Wrong number. Call the zoo."
fully to a telephone booth and w o u U l i k e t o s e e a h e a v i e r j m o r e
called up the nearest garage. s o l e m n j respectable and more
"Hello," he said, "I've turned s e r i o u s h u m o r i n t h i s c o l u m n>
but I won't be able to do this un­til
I pass freshman English.
Speaking of passing reminds me
of a friend of mine who has just
~~" passed out . . . of college. He
H p | •«— | p% m went off to school to become a
I f[Q C X C h d n O e \r O S t BY Al S t e i n b e r g minister of the gospel, a sort of
** vessel of righteousness scat-
. tering the seeds of justice. Well
in this, letter that I received from
him, he stated that he had been
dismissed from the institute for
stealing quizzes. There is no jus­tice!!!!
* * *
On my last trip to the West I
met a prudish looking lady rid­ing
on the train with me, who
CAMPUS BYLINES
The Pittsburgh Symphony
performed concerts at Georgia,
Alabama, and LSU but missed
Auburn.
Alec Templeton will perform
at Mississippi State March 24.
A hundred and forty colleges
are competing in the national
inter-collegiate bridge tourna­ment.
The finals are to be held
at the University of Chicago
April 18.
Northington General Hospital
has been given to the Universi­ty
of Alabama by WAA. Until
this term the college leased the
barracks where as many cs
1,930 students were housed last
quarter.
Northeastern colleges gather­ed
for a ski meet at the Uni­versity
of Syracuse last week.
Purdue's student production
of "New Moon" will sport a
cast of 300.
Construction of buildings for
Tuskegee's veterinary school
was started last month. Much
of the work will be done by
student labor, and the construc­tion
materiel, largely cement
blocks, will be made at the col­lege.
Three of the buildings
will be completed by Septem­ber.
* * *
CROSS COUNTRY HUMOR
A prof who comes to class
three minutes early is very un­usual.
In fact he's in a class by
himself.—Illinois Tech.
"Local sales of Mum and
Arrid have increased 75% dur­ing
the past week. Wonder
when we'll have hot water
again in the dorms."—Missis­sippi
State.
A psychology prof at Duke
opened his first class with the
statement, "You may not be
aware of this, but there are
probably several full blown s t a t e d t h a t s h e h a d a n m s t m c"
schizophrenics in this class." t i v e h a t r e d for riches. She
The class is still suspicious of bought that if a person were
. ,, born with a hand on the silver
each other. , ;• • • , , ,
Notice in Illinois Tech News, f P o o n £ ye a l t h ' h e °r *h e h a d
the right to enjoy the blessings
of wealth. But to inherit riches
was one thing and to work for
them was another. She conclud­ed
complacently that she wished
to remain an object of charity to
foster the spirituality of the rich
. . . However, I felt that she
needed a few guiding principles
to set her on the road to recov­ery.
Seemingly she had been in­veigled
by some high-minded
philanthropist through her inad­vertent
circumstances . . .
"Do raving maniacs amuse you?
Work for our editors."
When we asked the other clay
where' we could find statesmen,
the office boys suggested that
we look in the dictionary.—
Washington & Lee.
* * * ^
NOTRE DAME
He kissed her in the garden,
It was a moonlight night,
She was a marble statue,
He was a little tight.
AGNES SCOTT
A senior and her date emerg­ed
from a late show at Atlanta's
Fox theater and found she had
only 20 minutes to make the
room check at the dorm miles
away. Unfortunately half the
theater crowd were waiting • at
the parking lot for their cars.
Her date solved the emergency
by rushing to the attendant
and w h i s p e r i n g excitedly,
"Quick, get our car. It's an
emergency. We're having a
baby."
GUEST COLUMN
Bill Cook, senior in veteri­nary
medicine and h e ad
cheerleader is guest column­ist.
We Are For Auburn
In reference to the recently
appointed trustees at Auburn
made by Governor Folsom, we
have recently learned that their
appointment is not in accord
with some now unimportant
• few. The situation seems to be
this: these new trustee appoint­ments
made by Governor Fol­som
by strict law have to be
approved by the legislature be­fore
they are in accord to fill
the said positions. Since this
law was adopted it has been
the custom of the appointees to
take office on appointment and
act accordingly until they are
approved by the Senate. Walter
Randolph, who is the president
of the Farm Bureau, has re­cently
challenged this proced­ure
to the extent of court ac­tion
for reasons evident to all.
He submits that three of the
four appointees were acting un­lawfully
by sitting as trustees
at the recent meeting here at
Auburn.
Governor Folsom's comment
about this situation will clari­fy
the purpose behind Ran­dolph's
recent action. If you
will remember in "Big Jim's
campaign for the governorship
he stated, "You are going to
hear some squealing when the
boys are taken away from the
trough." Now after the action
of Mr. Randolph, Governor
Folsom comments, "It looks as
if weaning time is here."
It is not my purpose to make
any remarks against the Exten­sion
Service or the Farm Bu­reau
or to define the law as
to this question. It is my pur­pose,
however to defend Au­burn's
rights to become a lead­ing
college in the nation.
For the first time, since the
termination of Bibb Graves'
governorship, Auburn has had
noticeable support toward ad-vancemetn
in aid for a bigger
and better Auburn. I count this
not only to Governor Folsom
and the" new trustees, but 1.0
Dr. Duncan and the older mem­bers
of trustees as well.
The Auburn students make
up Auburn college. The stu­dents
are benefitted directly if
the college is so benefitted.
We, the students, have been of­fered
advancement for our
school for which we have long
awaited. Now when it looks as
if we are to get this aid, some
of our so-called prominent citi­zens—
men who pretend to be
for the betterment of our state
—are attempting to squelch
our years-long hope for our be­loved
school. I think all the
citizens of Alabama know how
we of Auburn feel and with
whom our support lies.
I am glad that Dr. Askew of
the County Health Department
is doing something about the
deplorable conditions of our
eating establishments in Au­burn.
Letters to
The Editor
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publication must be signed
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Sir:
In your r e c e n t editorial,
"Talking in Technicolor", you
ask, "Who can deny that it
isn't for a good cause?"
I can. It would make me il­literate.
I'm color-blind.
Fletcher Eddens
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Dear Editor:
What goes on down at the
Infirmary? Not long ago I went
down to visit my girl friend
and they wouldn't even let me
look at her.
There was another case where
a friend of mine had to show
all sorts of identification in
order to visit his own sister.
What I would like to know
is — are we to be treated
as—children, thugs, or college
men and women"
(Name withheld)
* * *
Dear Editor:
The dreadful, disastrous acci­dent
at P u r d u e University
Monday, February 24th should
be an example at Auburn.
Someday the bleachers is Alum­ni
Gym will come tumbling
down just as they did at Pur­due;
more likely than that,
Alumni Gym will come tumb­ling
down! Who knows what
the ghastly results would toll?
It could happen here! Let's
get the hangar gym ready soon:
(Signed)
Just one of hundreds
who feel the same.
Former AIO President Is Head
Of Student Executive Cabinet
By Taylor Lumpkin
Ably directing the business
of the Auburn student body
from his office in Student Cen­ter
is sandy-haired F r a nk
Keown, new president of the
Student Executive Cabinet.
The 22 year-old lad from
Scottsboro has a reputation for
getting things done. Other than
being the live wire in the exe­cutive
cabinet, Keown (pro­nounced
Cowan) is a member
of ODK, honorary s o c i e t y;
Spades, highest honorary organ­ization
for men on the Auburn
campus; past president of the
Auburn Independent Organiza­tion;
present advertising man­ager
and former business man­ager
of The Plainsman.
When Frank first came to
Auburn in the spring of 1941,
he took aeronautical engineer­ing
under the co-op plan, with
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Corporation. Under the co-op
plan, one student goes to school
while his alternate works, and
at the end of three months the
working lad goes to school.
Keown, answering the call of
his country, left Auburn in
1944, leaving behind a record of
many achievements. He was
successful in his scholastic work
and a member of the Auburn
Band, MITEC engineers, and
secretary-treasurer in the In­stitute
of Aeronautical Sci­ences.
He served as a cadet and
flight engineer in the A i r
Corps, returning to resume his
studies at API in January of
1946.
Even though he was fresh
from the service, Frank leaped
Lawrence Skipper
Art Guild Prexy
The Art Guild held election
of officers at a regular meet­ing
hi the Architecture Build­ing
last week.
Lawrence Skipper, Pi Kappa
Phi from Dothan, was re-elected
president; Jack Fletcher, Phi
Kappa Tau from Tampa, Flo...
was chosen vice president; Jo
S a l t e r , Bessemer, secretary:
Luther E. Davis, Columbus, Ga.;
treasurer; and Eddy Foreman,
Kappa Delta, Birmingham, was
named program chairman.
right into the swing of things,
and became a student again
with no reconversion difficul­ties.
He changed his course to
aero administration and took an
active part in the Auburn Inde­pendent
Organization, later be­ing
elected to the presidency.
He proved himself capable of
various activities which started
him on the steady drive toward
the election of president of the
student body.
Frank likes a good time, and
is especially partial to sports,
tennis being one of his. favor­ites.
He firmely believes that
one can accomplish his goai
only by hard steady work.
He will graduate next Au­gust,
when he hopes to get a
job in Alabama with "some
Prof. Backer Speaks
At IAS Meeting
At a meeting of the Institute
of Aeronautical Sciences last
week in Ramsay Hall, Prof. G.
H. Backer reported on the IAS
National Convention recently
held in New York.
Prof. Backer, who visited
Langley Field, Va.; W r i g ht
Field, O., the Navy Depart­ment,
Washington, and Chance-
Vought Aircraft Corp.; gave a
general report of his impres­sions
of each place.
Navy Terminal Leave
Information Given
Former Navy men who sub­mitted.
claims for terminal leave
payments prior to Dec. 1, 1946,
and have not received pay­ment
have been urged to com­municate
with the U. S. Termi­nal
Leave Disbursing Office,
Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, 111. Navy officials said
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Wednesday, March 5,1947 THE PLAINSMAN—5
Tiger Swimmers Meet
Miami Here Tomorrow
By Luther Smith
"Auburn's first swimming meet and the University of
Miami's second will come off here tomorrow afternoon at
3 p. m. in Alumni Gym. To steady itself, Miami will have
already swapped strokes with the University of Georgia,
while Auburn's team is yet green. Though API swimmers
have a competent coach in John
Borchardt, odds against them
now stand at almost two-one.
Miami boasts John Booth,
1939 Southeastern AAU 50-
yard champion, who swims the
100 free style, the 50 free style,
and the free relay. Tomorrow
he will match strokes with Jim
McCary and Walter W. Robin­son,
hearty local finds who
should show in good speed.
Against "Red" Burrell, 150
back stroke and New England
outdoor 100 meter champion,
Coach Borchardt will probably
throw in as opposition Robert
C. Niver, a 150 back stroke
possibility. Burrell, who has a
pug nose and a head of flaming
red hair, has been vigorously
training all year for the Miami
meets this spring. Niver is par­tially
handicapped in that he
has been training for only a
short time. If he does top Bur­rell,
Auburn should crown him
with athletic laurels.
Walter Robinson may go in
against Jack Brown, another
Miami 150 back stroke. The
two are well-matched in phy­sique
and both are potential
amateurs reaching fof the title
of professional.
Coach Borchardt will un­doubtedly
find big competition
in Louis Antonnelis, All-Ameri-can
Swimming Team in 1941,
and veteran Miami 440 free
style. One of six Auburn men
will be pitted against him in
the 400 meter contest: Felix
Hohe, Angel Garriga, Walter
Robinson, Jack Frazer, Charles
Ruth, or John Allen. Whoever
is thrown in will have a tough
time, for Antonelis has years
of experience behind him.
The tentative Auburn line-up
for the meet tomorrow night is:
300 meter, Robert Niven, A. L.
Rowe, Charles L. Ruth; 200
meter free style, Jim McCary,
Walter Robinson; 50 meter dash.
Jack Frazer, Charles Ruth, Jim
McCary; 100 meter dash, John
Allen, Jim McCary; 150 meter
back stroke, Robert C. Niven,
Walter W. Robinson; 200 meter
breast stroke, A. L. Rowe,
George R. Waitts; 400 meter
free style, Felix Hohe, Angel
Garriga, Walter W. Robinson,
Jim McCary, J a c k Frazer,
Charles L. Ruth, and John Al­len.
Anyone interested in seeing
swimming at its best should
attend the' meet tomorrow af­ternoon.
With plenty of rooters,
Auburn's team might go over
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Matmen Defeat Georgia Tech; SEAAU Here On Week-
Tigers End Season With
Six Wins, Two Losses
McKenzie/ Keller, Humphrey, Pate,
And B. Woodham Win Over Jackets
By Jack Simms
In the final meet of the regular season, the Auburn
grapplers defeated an improved Georgia Tech wrestling
team 23 to 13 before a large crowd at Alumni Gym Satur­day
night. It was the Tigers' second win of the year over
the Jackets, and t h e victory
gave the Plainsmen a record of
six wins against two defeats for
the season.
In the opening match, Ted
Sargent, who had not fully re­covered
from a shoulder injury,
lost a hard fought tussle to Edd
Chandler of Tech. Brannon
Woodham of Auburn swept
back in the next match to out­point
Giesler in a struggle 'that
had the crowd holding its
breath.
The feature event of the
evening found "Spider" Mc-
Kinzie, the Tiger terror, pitted
against Lamar Oglesby. The
match was very even with
neither man being able to get
the upper hand in the first
two periods. Lamar tried a
little in the third period and
"Spider" managed to pin him
just before the period ended.
The fall gave Auburn's 136-
pound star a record of seven
victories against one defeat
for the season.
Carrol Keller ciidn't even
work up a sweat in pinning Dar­by
Cusack and putting the
Tigers out in front 13 to 5. Even
faster than Carroll's work was
the match between Carl Batten,
the Georgia Tech captain, and
Sam Woodham, in which Batten
pinned Sammy in 1:24.
Although losing, Robert Ward
gave the crowd its biggest thrill
when he managed to keep one
shoulder off the mat for nearly
three minutes even through his
opponent had a perfect hold on
him. In this match, both wrestl­ers
tired early and were very
slow in the final period.
Co-Captain Watts Humphrey
sewed up the show for the
Tigers by pinning Warren
Moore after a lengthy brawl
which was highlighted by the
brilliant escapes made by both
grapplers. In the heavyweight
event, "Jug" Pate added an­other
to his lengthy string of
victories when he felled his
lighter opponent.
This scrap was the tune-up
for the SEAAU meet when the
two teams will tangle again at
Alumni Gym this week-end.
Full results of the meet are:
121 lb., Chandler (GT) over
Sargent (A) by fall-time 3:54;
128 lb., B. Woodham (A) over
Giesler (GT) by decision—score
7-2; 136 lb., McKenzie (A) over
Oglesby GT) by fall—time 8:52;
145 lb., Keller (A) over Cusack
(GT) by fall—time 2:58; 155 lb.,
Batten (GT) over S. Woodham
(A) by fall-time 1:24; 165 lb,
Donaldson (GT) over Ward (A)
by decision—score 8-3; 175 lbs.,
Humphrey (A)' over Moore (GT)
by fall—time 4:32; Hvy. Wt.
Pate (A) over Mattews (GT) by
fall—time 3:58.
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By Frank Sego
Harwell Opens Golf Course . . .
Everett Harwell, the former Auburn end who has made
good in the entertainment business here, is pioneering an­other
feature designed for the pleasure and pastime o::
Auburnites. The popular Tiger star of a few seasons ago.
now has under construction a miniature golf course, which
is located adjacent to the Students' Book Exchange on
College Street. In checking with Harwell this week, he
sxpressed his uncertainty as to when the course would
be ready for the public.
Spotlight On Tiger Sporting Scene . . .
Auburn's sporting scene is about as crowded now as
it will be at any other time during the year. Strolling to­ward
the Field House these afternoons, one may witness
the charges of Coach Voyles undergoing the rigors of
spring football practice while the prospects of Coach
Doyle are operating in baseball uniforms. On other sections
of the field, Inter-Fraternity volleyball play is being car­ried
on with two and three games going on simultaneously.
Further down the way Coach Hutsell will be seen sending
his fleetfooted thinclads around the stadium cinders in
preparation for their first meet on Mar. 29. Moving over
to Alumni Gym, Coach Umbach's wrestlers may be found
shaping themselves for their favorite role in the first
Southeastern Conference tournament while Coach Borch-ardt's
swimmers are tapering for their initial outing with
the University of Miami. Tis encouraging to see as much
sports activity around the Village.
* * * *
Diamond Dust Soon To Fly . . .
Howard J. "Danny" Doyle, Auburn's aggressive young
baseball mentor, is getting down to the kind of business
these days that may see the Tigers' emerge as a champion­ship
diamond aggregation in '47. While his pitching and
catching candidates were warming up under cool weather
conditions this week, the former Red Sox receiver was busy
signing a hurler and first sacker out of Georgia's prep
school ranks in addition to cbmpleting the links of a 20-
game 1947 schedule. Doyle's chief source of optimism for
the coming spring is built around the return of a number
of lettermen from a '46 nine that closed its season with a
blaze of glory by taking 11 straight games, including a
double win from Georgia. In that category are such per­sonalities
as Capt. Joe Grant, Alt.-Capt. Vic Akin, Hubert
Stepp, Buddy Cookson, Ray Williams, Travis Tidwell, Carl
Fletcher, Jimmy "Red" Thomas, Lyman Woodfin, and Don
Brause. Williams won the Tiger batting crown last year,
sporting an impressive .370 average. Tidwell was the
runner-up with .354, followed by Woodfin, who netted a
.333 percentage. So from this, you can, see that the Plains­men
will have the brunt of their hitting power back for
another season. The nightmare, however, arises over a
well-balanced mound staff. Jordan, Glasscock, and Mark-ham,
the Big Three of the '46 campaign, are gone and Coach
Doyle will be forced to start from scratch. But with his own
catching ability, he shouldn't find too great a difficulty
in developing some of the more inexperienced youngsters
that have reported.
The completed 1947 schedule is as follows: Apr. 8, Mer­cer
(here); Apr. 15-16, Miss. State (Starkville); Apr. 17-18,
Univ. of Miss. (Oxford); Apr. 25-26, Florida (here); Apr.
28, Mercer (Macon); May 5-6, Georgia (Athens); May
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Final EEiminafi
Saturday In AEumni Gymnasium
By Jack Simms
As a climax to the 1947
wrestling season, the Southeas-
;ern Amateur Athletic Union
Wrestling Meet will be held in
the Alumni Gym» Friday and
Saturday. Teams representing
Chattanooga, Georgia Tech, and
Auburn will participate in the
meet, and two YMCA teams
from Tennessee may be includ­ed.
Led by John (Spider) Mc­Kenzie,
who has won seven
and 'lost only one match this
year, and James (Jug) Pate, who
has an impressive record of five
wins against two defeats, the
Tigers will go into the meet as
a heavy favorite. Coach Um­bach's
boys defeated both Tech
and Chattanooga in the regu­lar
season, but they are expect­ing
plenty of trouble from these
improved teams in the first an­nual
SEAAU meet.
The preliminaries will be held
Friday night at 7:30 and Satur­day
afternoon at 2:30. Elimina­tions
will be held at these ses­sions
for the finals which are
scheduled for 7:30 Saturday-night.
Admission for students
and faculty members will be 30
cents and for all others 60 cents.
This money will go to the
American Olympic Association
to help finance the Olympic
team of 1948.
The nine men upon which
Coach Umbach will pin his
hopes are Ted Sargent, Bran­non
Woodham, John McKen­zie,
Carroll Keller, Robert Ward,
Watts Humphrey, Jim Ingram
and Jug Pate. In addition to
these, some 17 Auburn students
will be entered in the meet as
unattached.
Standard Southeastern Cham­pionship
AAU medals will be
awarded to first, second, and
third place winners in the 10
weight classes and a handsome
trophy will be presented to the
high scoring team.
Contestants will vie for hon­ors
in the following weight
classes: 115, 121, 128, 135, 145,
155, 165, 175, 191, and unlimited
heavy-weight.
As have all previous meets
held in Auburn this year, this
one is expected to draw a capa­city
crowd. With some of the
participants slated to go to the
nationals, this will undoubtedly
prove to be the leading wrestl­ing
meet of the South for this
year. For some thrill-packed
entertainment, drop down to the
Gym Friday and Saturday and
cheer the' Tigers on to victory.
PiKA-ATO Vie For
Ping Pong Crown
In the finals of the inter-fraternity
table tennis, PiKA
faces ATO. Coach Evans has
set the date of this match for
this Saturday. Both fraternities
have shown real prowess with
the paddles and this match
promises to be the best of the
tournament.
Pledge Class Officers
Elected By Theta Chi
Officers of the pledge class
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Jack Haynes, Decatur, presi­dent;
Bill Grice, Monroeville,
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Down on Railroad Avenue — Opelika
resents Bamboo relay Evening
Maxine McCutcheon Leads
With President Don Nebrig
Dance Will Feature Tropical Motif;
Auburn Knights Wiil Furnish Music
Girls Gym will be transformed into an anonymous
South Sea island Saturday night when Alpha Delta Chap­ter
of Sigma Pi presents its "Bamboo Ball" from 9 'til 12.
RICE and OLD SHOES
Miss Maxine McCutcheon of
, Decatur will lead with Chapter
President Don Nebrig.
j The danse will feature the
music of the Auburn Knights.
j The chapter decorations com­mittee,
headed by Leo Dawse}',
is arranging colorful art work
with swaying palm trees and
hula girls and other decorative-elements
to carry out the tropi­cal
island motif. . .
I Sigma Pi members, pledges,
and their guests include Donald
Nebrig, Maxine McCutheon, De­catur;
Frazier Galloway, Vir­ginia
White, Birmingham; De-witt
Robinson, Betty Blalock,
Birmingham; James Lovvorn,
Emalene Stoves, Auburn; Jim
Seamans, Jacqueline DeLoach,
Atlanta; Leonard Hooper, Teen-ie
Smith, Troy; Charles Allen,
Margaret Cole, Columbiana:
Bruce Barksdale, Tera Lee, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; Sidney Brown,
Ann Swindle, Marvel; John
Cates, Bette Whitson, Birming­ham;
Harold Cole, Leila Alice
Flewellen, Opelika; Jim Curtis,
Thelma Paxton, Auburn; John
Deignon, Mrs. John Deignon,
Auburn; Leo Dawsey, Marga­ret
Willingham, Mobile; Ken­neth
Doss, Eugenia Walker,
Montgomery; G l e n n Downs,
Margaret Vance, Birmingham;
Onis Green, Mary Elizabeth
Swafford, Cullman; Ed Holley,
Lydia Allen, Mobile; Bert Hud-
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STEAKS CHICF.EN
SEAFOOD
Auburn
son, Tommic Tillery, Birming­ham.
Cecil Jernigan, Jean Bosch-ung,
Montgomery; Ray Jones,
Mrs. Ray Jones, Hattiesburg,
Harry Kinney, Fay Clements,
Rockmart, Ga.; Carl Knight,
Peggy Daves, Cullman; Louie
Lamb, DeeGee Sharp, Pine Hill;
Frank Massey, Louise Wright,
Eufaula; Talmadgc Meadows,
Rita Reese, Auburn; Roger Me-
Clarty, Vivian Butler, Atlanta;
Tom Laseter, Vernon Harrison;
C o l e s Nix, Estelle Wallace;
Richard Teague, Mary Jane
Morris, T u s c u m b i i i ; Cecil
Teague, Lucille Archer, Hatties­burg;
Warren Richardson, Sara
Kay, Atlanta; James Thomas,
Betty Garvey, Decatur, Ga.;
Harold Torbett, Virginia Hen­derson,
Mobile; Fred Waldrop,
Peggy Gorham, Cullman; Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Perry, Auburn.
Stags are James Brown, Ed
Lindsay, Robert Barksdale, Bill
Marsden, Leslie Adams, Alfred
Langford, Don Pate.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Mose-ley,
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Adams,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Warren, Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Lindsay, Mr. and
Mrs. Walton Stone, Mr. and
Mrs. Emanuel Vakakes, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Burge, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Folsom.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Roberts,
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Wittel, Dr.
and Mrs. Henry G. Good, Dean
Katharine Cater.
Pi Kappa Phi Initiates
Eighteen Members
In the largest initiation in
history of Alpha Iota chapter
of Pi Kappa Phi, 18 new mem­bers
were initiated. They were
Henry Armstrong, Warren Bor­land,
William Clifton, Gail
Comfort, John Dale, Wallace
Drury, Joly^ Goodson, Edwin
Grant, George King, Fontaine
Maddox, Jr., Langdon Morton,
Jr., Dan Parmer, James Robin­son,
Frank Robison, Wilson
Roby, Jr., Henry Trippe, Luth­er
Weaver, and Floyd Young-
Theta Upsilon Enjoys
Midnight Breakfast
Pledges a n d members oi
Theta Upsilon enjoyed a mid­night
breakfast sponsored by
the pledge group last night.
Grace Poole, pledge presi­dent,
Doris Parker, and Judy
Head were responsible for the
delicious breakfast which was
served with all the trimmings
to their sisters.
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Johnson-Moseley
Mrs. Arthur McGowan John­son,
of Midway, announces the
marriage of her daughter, Jean
O l i v i a , to Frances Jackson
Moseley, of Union Springs. The
wedding took place in the home
of the Rev. Andrew Turnipseed,
pastor of the Dexter Avenue
Methodist Church, who officiat­ed.
Mrs. Moseley is continuing
her studies at Huntingdon Col­lege
where she is a member of
the senior class. Mr. Mosley is
a student in the School of Busi­ness
Administration at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. Fol­lowing
her graduation from
Huntingdon in May, Mr. and
Mrs. Moseley will make their
home in Auburn.
Tucker-Harris
The engagement a n d ap­proaching
marriage of Miss Bar­bara
Dukes Tucker of Tusca­loosa
to Richard Adley Harris,
of Montgomery, is of cordial
interest.
Miss Tucker is the daughter
of Hayse Robert Tucker and
the late Helen Rockwell Tuck­er.
She graduated fiom Steph­ens
College, Columbia, Mo., in
1£K5, where she was a member
of the Kappa Delta sorority.
Mr. Harris is the son of Mrs.
Peggy Harris, of Montgomery
and New York, and Dr. E. P.
Harris, of Montgomery and
Bessemer. He entered Alabama
Polytechnic Institute and then
the Army in July, 1942, and
served for four years in the Eu­ropean
Theater of Operations
and reached the rank of cap­tain.
He is graduating this year
as a pre medical student at Au­burn
where he is a member
and president of the Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity.
The wedding will take place
March 20 in Christ Episcopal
Church.
Wanna Keep Someone
Warm? Call Connie
Students interested in help­ing
to knit children's sweaters
for the Red Cross are asked to
contact Connie Buergin, knit­ting
chairman for the API
Branch, Lee County Chapter
ARC, at Dormitory II.
Miss Buergin will furnish
anyone interested with the wool
and instructions.
Small size sweaters will be
sent overseas to the children of
war-torn countries who have
insufficient clothes to k e ep
them warm in the bleak, freez­ing
weather yet to come in
Europe.
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Friday
Second Formal Held By Midshipmen
Is Big Success; Plainsmen Play
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Sigma Pi Honors
Founders Day
On the evening of February
26th, 1897, four young Vin-cennes
(Indiana) College under­graduates
met and laid the
groundwork for the foundation
of a scholastic and social org­anization
which has spread to
America's campuses as Sigma
Pi fraternity, the first social
fraternity, after the "Miami
Triad", formed west of the Ohio
River.
This year's Fiftieth Anniver­sary
celebration was observed
by Sigma Pi chapters all over
the United States in many dif­ferent
ways, such as house
dances, smokers, informal par­ties,
and other types of social
events. Here, Alpha Delta chap­ter
of Sigma Pi called in alum­ni
and held a stag Founders'
Day banquet and smoker. For
the convenience of the alumni,
the date was advanced to Sat­urday,
February 22nd, t he
weekend observance allowing
many to attend who f other­wise
would have been kept
away by distance and business
duties.
The banquet table featured,
in addition to the famous Sig­ma
Pi golden-fried chicken, dec­orations
in the fraternity colors,
royal purple and gold. These
decorations, designed and exe­cuted
by the housemother, Mrs.
C. M. Tucker, were keynoted
by lighted candles in floral ar­rangements,
and individual
place cards with menu inserts.
Chapter President Don Nebrig
served as master of ceremonies,
and Secretary Jim Seamans
handled arrangements for the
celebration.
Sigma Nu Initiates
Nineteen Men
Beta Theta of Sigma N!u
initiated nineteen men Febru­ary
19. Those initiated were
John Flemming, Montgomery;
John Todd, Montgomery 5» Ware
Gaston, S y l a c a u g a ; James
Smith, Brewton; Tom Brooks,
Dothan; John Morrison, Mont­gomery;
Clint Conner, Eufaula;
James Hale, Birmingham; Bob
Garmany, Pensacola, Fla.; D. J.
Faulkner, Moreland, Ga.; Hollis
Gieger, Gadsden; Dick Conner,
Gadsden; Sidney Berkstresser,
Gadsden; Bruce Burson, Selma;
John Westcott, Sylacauga; Fe­lix
Holder, Huntsville; Warren
Smith, Montgomery; Toon Fer-rel,
Eufaula; Sam McClurkin,
Birmingham.
The gjnn was decorated in a
truly Naval manner, with a
backdrop of a frosted cartooned
silhouette of a battleship on a
navy blue backfield, alternate
display of fouled anchors, and a
design of a midshipman cap.
Naval Signal Flags were hung
from the ceiling.
The dance was led by Miss
Tat Callahan, escorted by Mid­shipman
Hoyt Burns. Other
midshipmen and their dates in­clude
Edwin Baker, Sue Ses­sions;
Edward Burkhalter, Mary
Cottle; Clifford Burn, Martha
Jordan; Homer Carter, Mau-veline
Shaw; Olan Cosper, Gene
Hurt; Billy Cox, Yuvetta Green;
John Cates, Mirion McLatchy;
Edgar Dixey, Josephine Jami­son;
Joel Hall, Betty Ann Tay­lor;
William Hutchinson, Emily
Cammack; Walt Jordan, Kittye
Green; Frank Liberato, Eliza­beth
Arnold; Sherman Prosser,
Belle Florey; James Plaster,
Jeanette Hayes; Bill Ralls,.Bar­bara
Ingram; Kenneth Roy, Bar­bara
Howe; Charles Skinner,
Mae Crumpton; Jack Still, Ema­lene
Stores; Glenn Thomas,
Doris Puryear; Max Washing­ton,
Nancy Cobb; Emmet Wigin-ton,
Betty Joyce Smith; Harold
Wise, Addie Laurie Barganier;
James White, Jerry Hollis; Jo­seph
Wilson, Helen Hamilton;
Ashby Haygood, Mamye Hollo-way.
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Stags were Glenn Beagles,
Harold Bowron, Erdman Burk-hardt,
Joseph Byers, Jack Cul­pepper,
Furnie Dickerson, Wil­liam
Fleming, Richard Gilliam,
James Henderson, M a x w e ll
King, John Leslie, William Mc-
Carley, Robert Nesbitt, James
Osborne, Herbert Patterson,
George Peake, Jim Phillips,
Alvah Rowe, Alsie Riley, Raph­ael
Thompson, a n d Bevan
Youse.
Members of the staff their
wives and dates were, Captain
and Mrs. J. L. Callahan, Comdr.
and Mrs. A. C. Roessler, Lieut,
and Mrs. J. A. Warren, First
Lieut, and Mrs. Kallenberg,
USMC, Chief D. W. Loper and
Miss Mary Lou Gaines and
numerous guests. Mrs. Wallace
Tidmore was chaperone.
EIGHT INITIATED
BY KAPPA SIGMA
Beta Eta chapter of Kappa
Sigma held formal initiation
Sunday for Gordon Lawless,
Talladega; Jack Womack, Nash­ville,
Tenn.; Hugh Gaston, Leb­anon,
Tenn.; Robert Keith,
Dearfield Beach, Fla.; Harvey-
Stephenson, Dothan; Frank Lib­erato,
^Pensacola, Fla.; Bill
Blankenstein, Natchez, Miss.;
and Fletcher Eddens, Decatur.
Following initiation, a ban­quet
was held in honor of the
new members at the chapter
house.
HURCH OF CHRIST
SUNDAY SERVICES
10 A. M. Bible School
11 A. M. Worship
6:30 P. M. Young People's
Class
7:15 P. M. Evening Services
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Minister
TUESDAY
3:30 P. M. Ladies Bible Class
WEDNESDAY
7:15 P.M. Prayer Meeting, Bible Study
FRIDAY
7:15 P. M. Song Service , ..._„,. .
A Cordial Welcome Awaits You At Each Of These Services
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ATO Elects Officers
For Spring Quarter
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
recently held election of their
new officers. Joe Rice, a junior
in Electrical Engineering, was
elected president, succeeding
Gene Millsap.
Others officers named are Ira
Long, vice president; Charlie
Henagan, treasurer; G e o r ge
Wallace, historian; Lewis Arm­strong,
secretary; Dick O'Cain,
sentinel; E r n e s t Thiemonge,
usher; and Cameron Price, cor­responding
secretary.
JAN DRAKE BECOMES
THETA U PRESIDENT
Iota Alpha of Theta Upsilon
announces the succession of
Julanne (Jan) Drake of Middle-ton,
Ohio, to the presidency of
the local chapter. Betty Hudson
of Birmingham, the retiring
president has resigned from
school to be married.
The newly elected vice presi­dent
is Jinx Clements of Ma­con,
Ga.
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, March 5,1947
APPLIED MUSIC
CONCERT REVIEW
By Dick Inlow
I'm afraid I can't pay many
compliments to the Music De­partment
for the way they
handled the publicity for last
Thursday night's Applied Music
Recital in Langdon Hall. An an­nouncement
was made at the
Piatigorsky concert but so fat-as
I know that was the only
public announcement. As a re­sult
the attendance was very
disappointing; the fine recitals
given deserved a better turn-but.
The one person who shone
out among many excellent per­formers
was pianist Dilson
Petrey. He played a difficult
Chopin Scherzo with assured
c o n f i d e n c e , interpreting its
mood in a convincing manner.
From my impression of the one
piece I heard him play I would
rate him almost on a par with
the brilliant young W. Pvobert
Brittenham, a student at Augus-tana
College in Illinois, and part
time accompanist of the famed
Augustana Choir.
Miss Annie Smoke opened
the recital with a Haydn Sonata.
Miss Smoke's mechanical ability
on the piano is good, and if she
could develop an inner pull to
give added intimacy to her
music she would make a very
interesting pianist.
Scott Pointer, baritone, left
me with the impression of good
resonance and a pleasing voice.
A little power may be lacking
but continued practice will
remedy that.
I enjoyed very much "Pas-torelle"
sung by Miss Barbara
Neal. Miss Neal has very good
quality and to me appears a
potential concert artist. Her
voice reminds me of England's
Dora Labette. I would like to
hear her sing "I Know That
My Redeemer Liveth" from
Handel's "Messiah." *
Lee Hood, baritone, sang the
lovely "Where e're You Walk"
by Handel. Mr. Hood has an
excellent type voice for sole
work in Church music.
Miss Malda Wellborn, the only
alto on the program, exibited e
sweet voice that got better and
better as her song progressed.
The top honors in the baritone
class, I believe,..went to Charles
Oct lo'ijfe
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L O O K H O W F A S T H E ' S
Growing Up...
Youngsters thrive on our rich, pure
wholesome milk. For milk's the perfect
food! It builds strong bones, it's full
of vitamins and minerals and it's a
"must" for all children.
OPELIKA CREAMERY
HOLDS POSITION
Bill Laney, former president
of the Inter-Fraternity Council
at Auburn, is now advertising
manager for Sears-Roebuck and
Co., in Gadsden. He graduated
from API last year.
Mills. H^s choice was "Still as
the Night" and he sang it with
pleasing voice and superior
power.
The currently very popular
"Clair de Lune" by Claude De­bussy
was played capably and
smoothly by John Bankston.
Russell Beutel must be given
a lot of credit for choosing a
Wagnerian aria for his piece.
He sang the lovely "Evening
Star" from "Tannhauser" and
did a commendable job on it.
He showed good resonance
while singing in the lower regis­ters
of his voice.
A good performance, it seems,
is always to be had from the
versatile Billy Tamblyn. He ac­companied
all the singers but
one and gave each of them ex­cellent
support. The one singer
he did not accompany, Scott
Pointer, was accompanied by a
very capable young lady, whose
name, unfortunately, I do not
know. Mr. Tamblyn then con­cluded
the recital with an ex­cellent
rendition of the very
modernistic "Toccata" by Kha-chaturian.
It was an evening well spent
—too bad more people didn't
know about it!
LOST: A tan spiral notebook
in architecture building con­taining
poultry notes Monday
morning. Please return to Nan­cy
Reinsmith, Dorm 4, or call
9144.
FOR SALE: Bedroom and liv­ing
room furniture, practically
new. Also one hot plate. Phone
211-M, 210y2 Payne St.
Have that clock repaired.
See Ed Gray c/o Jockisch
Jewelry.
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FOR SALE: 1946 Cushman
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FOR SALE: 1939 Aeronca
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Cheap. Must sell. Call
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LOST: Emeral jeweled Sigma
Chi fraternity pin with initials
GGH. Reward for return. Call
9267 or see Graham Hixon at
Burton's.
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